MGD Sections
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UNFCCC decisions and requirements
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IPCC good practice guidance
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Relationship to UNFCCC
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GHGI coverage, approaches, methods and tiers
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Design decisions relevant to national forest monitoring systems
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Land cover, land use and stratification
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Forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels
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Quality assurance and quality control
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Guiding principles – Requirements and design decisions
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Estimation methods for REDD+ activities
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Integration frameworks for estimating emission and removals
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Selecting an integration framework
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Activity data x emission/removal factor tools
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Fully integrated tools
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Practical considerations in choosing an integration tool
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Guiding principles – Methods and approaches
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Remote sensing observations
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Coarse resolution optical data
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Medium resolution optical data
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High resolution optical data
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L-band Synthetic aperture radar
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C-band and X-band SAR
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LIDAR
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Global forest cover change datasets
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Ground-based observations
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National forest inventories
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Auxiliary data
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Guiding principles – Remote sensing and ground-based observations
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Activity data
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Methods for estimating activity data
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Maps of forest/non-forest, land use, or forest stratification
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Detecting areas of change
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Additional map products from remote sensing
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Estimating uncertainty of area and change in area
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Estimating total emissions/removals and its uncertainty
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REDD+ requirements and procedures
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Reporting forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels
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Technical assessment of forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels
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Reporting results of REDD+ activities
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Technical analysis of the REDD+ annex to the BUR
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Additional advice on REDD+ reporting and verification
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Guiding Principles – Reporting and verification of emissions and removals
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Financial considerations
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Country examples – Tier 3 integration
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Use of global forest change map data
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Relative efficiencies
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Developing and using allometric models to estimate biomass
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Integrating remote-sensing and ground-based observations for estimation of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases in forests: Methods and Guidance from the Global Forest Observations Initiative
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